Frisian
460.000 speakers
24 language specific characters
ISO 639 code: fry
Frisian is a group of West Germanic languages spoken in Germany and the Netherlands. There are three main varieties of Frisian: West Frisian which is spoken by about 450,000 people in the Netherlands; North Frisian a collection of nine different dialects spoken in Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) by about 8,000 people, and Sater Frisian with about 2,000 speakers in the German state of Lower Saxony.
Frisian is closely related to English with up to 80% of lexical similarity.
source
wikipedia.org, omniglot.com, evertype.com & ethnologue.com
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sample text

Wes gjin koekoek ast in gealle bist. Wes gjin gealle ast in lyster of in hûn bist. Elkenien makket syn lûd. Wy binne Underware.

translation kindly provided by Tjalling Halbertsma